Young people take part in Breakfast club themed Zoom call

There was lots of Friday fun (31 July

2020) at Autonomie today and the first Zoom session was a breakfast club themed call.

Áine explains the session:

“Everyone brought their breakfast to eat together and talked us through what they were having.

“We had a variety of cereals, scrambled eggs, toast and drinks.

“Everyone enjoyed their yummy breakfasts while catching up with each other.

“We looked at some pictures of breakfasts from different countries and guessed where they where from.

“One of our young people told us about their breakfasts on their holidays in France and pronounced some of the foods in French.

“We watched a short video of children trying different breakfasts from around the world.

“We also looked at some pictures from my holidays as one of the young people had grizzly bears on his T-shirt and I told him that I had seen bears for the first time last weekend!

“This was a nice chilled out session and everyone had lots to eat. We were all looking forward to another food themed session with Danni this afternoon.”

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Freedom2Choose arts and crafts Salt Dough Plant stick activity everyone can try at home!

It’s Saturday and that means Freedom2Choose activities to try at home. Team Leader Tessie has created this wonderful Salt Dough arts & crafts activity for young people to try at home with parental guidance.

In their July activity pack, young people will have received a small dried heart sample on a stick which was made from salt dough!

To make these bright and cheery plant sticks, follow the easy step-by-step instructions on each of the 14 photographs below!

Send us pictures and we will add them to our Facebook page, we can’t wait to see all everyone’s designs!

Virtual Summer Scheme: Register before 3.00 on today (Friday 31 July)

Today is the last day to register your young person for our Virtual Summer Scheme on Zoom!

This fun-filled 4 day summer scheme runs 11th- 14th August 2020.

Also if you could also please can you let us know what activities your young person wants to take part in before 3.00 pm today. See activity schedule below.

To register your child:

Please contact Nicole Hammond our Youth Project Officer by email on nicoleautonomieorg@gmail.com or via Parents WhatsApp Group Chat.

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Young people make use of activity packs funded by Halifax Foundation NI

Young people are this week making great use of their activity packs which were kindly funded by Halifax Foundation NI.

Amazing work everyone!

We are delighted to announce the Autonomie Virtual Summer Scheme 2020

We are delighted to announce the Autonomie Virtual Summer Scheme 2020! 4 days of fun, digital interactive group-based activities for young people aged 16-25 of all abilities.

Please see flyer for full details.

With lots on there’s something for everyone! Please see flyer below for further details.

Also back by popular demand will be the Wee Critters NI and more fun can be expected with Jumping Clay which will also host an activity session.

Event: Autonomie Summer Scheme 2020

When: Tuesday 11 August - Friday 14 August 2020

Where: Zoom (Kahoot also for the Quiz).

Our members can register their interest and attendance by contacting Nicole Hammond our Youth Project Officer by email at nicoleautonomie@gmail.com

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Mad Hatter’s Tea Party themed Coffee Morning on Zoom

On Friday 24 July 2020 some members joined in on our regular Coffee Break and Social and virtually attended a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party!

Danni who led the Zoom session explains the activity:

“I had 6 young people join me for a Mad Hatter's Tea party.

“We started off by chatting about what film/book the Mad Hatter and who all joined him for his tea party.

“We then watched a short clip on YouTube of the Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland.

“We then had a small competition where we told each other silly jokes to try and get each other to laugh - the more people you got laughing the higher your points (one young person even had his joke book out).

“To end the session we played pastacup where we tried to throw the pasta in the cup.

“All young people appeared to enjoy the session and I look forward to seeing them this afternoon.”

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Tessie’s ‘Make Bunting’ activity proves popular with Freedom2Choose members

Saturday 25 July 202

On the first Saturday activity after the staff break, young people joined in Tessie’s arts and crafts activity making bunting using some items supplied in the activity packs funded by Halifax Foundation NI.

Tessie has created this step-by-step guide (below) on how to make your own bunting!

Here is how everyone got on!

We are so proud of everyone’s team enthusiasm and creativity.

Well done everyone! Fantastic.

Our latest Annual Report is now available

The Autonomie Annual Report 2019-20 is now available.

Available here by clicking to download.

To request a copy in the post please use the contact form below.

Alternatively, email Lynne Morrison, our Chief Officer for a copy, please include your name and full postal address in the email.

Email Lynne at: autonomieorg@gmail.com

Request a copy of the Autonomie 2019-20 Annual Report

Young people make nature-themed inspired animal masks in Zoom arts and crafts activity session

Thursday 23 July 2020

At this afternoon’s virtual activity session young people had fun making animal masks.

Speaking at the session Naomi who led the session said:

“We look forward to wearing them at our animal themed coffee morning on Tuesday.

“We will be learning some facts about our favourite animals.

Well done everyone your masks look fantastic!”

With 2 more interactive sessions again tomorrow (Friday) live on Zoom from 10.00 am there’s fun for everyone.

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Zoom participants use emotion cards sharing their feelings with the group

This morning (Thursday 23 July 2020) we started the Coffee Break and Social Zoom session by asking young people to use their emotion cards (which they received in their activity pack) to tell us how they are feeling.

Followed by Nicole asking young people a set number of questions in which they used their emoji cards to answer.

For example: “would you eat juice with cereal instead of milk?”

The young people then had the opportunity to ask the group their own question.

The questions which were asked allowed young people the opportunity to communicate with one another, and learn facts about each other.

This exercise promoted interpersonal and listening skills as well as patience.

This activity also provided young people with opportunity to recognise commonalities and differences.

We finished up our session with Naomi providing an insight on this afternoon’s Arts & Crafts session.

Well done to all participants for taking part.

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